How hard disks work

I found this link and although it is not extremely technical, it will give those who don't know how hard drives work a basic idea. It also gives a small history lesson about the first IBM drive invented in 1955.

http://www.serverworldmagazine.com/m.../03/data.shtml

Hope this helps!

interesting, i'd be interested to see more such articles on such subjects as RAM or processors. Good Post!

ArsTechnica has many good papers on the internal design of processors, along with a lot of other generally good stuff.